Next morning, in a hired car, she had Castanado and Mme. Dubroca, Beloiseau and Mme. Alexandre, not merely show but, as the ironworker said, pinching forefinger and thumb together in the air, "elucidate" to her, for hours, the _vieux carré_.

And while there are brilliant lines scattered through these pieces Kael was always a fine, needling polemicist, it would probably take acres of footnotes to elucidate exactly what they were all arguing about.